Identifying the neural substrates of intrinsic motivation during task performance
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Lee, Woogul and Reeve, Johnmarshall. (2017). Identifying the neural substrates of intrinsic motivation during task performance. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience. 17(5), pp. 939 - 953. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-017-0524-x
Authors | Lee, Woogul and Reeve, Johnmarshall |
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Abstract | Intrinsic motivation is the inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenge, to explore and investigate, and to stretch and extend one’s capacities. When people imagine performing intrinsically motivating tasks, they show heightened anterior insular cortex (AIC) activity. To fully explain the neural system of intrinsic motivation, however, requires assessing neural activity while people actually perform intrinsically motivating tasks (i.e., while answering curiosity-inducing questions or solving competence-enabling anagrams). Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, we found that the neural system of intrinsic motivation involves not only AIC activity, but also striatum activity and, further, AIC–striatum functional interactions. These findings suggest that subjective feelings of intrinsic satisfaction (associated with AIC activations), reward processing (associated with striatum activations), and their interactions underlie the actual experience of intrinsic motivation. These neural findings are consistent with the conceptualization of intrinsic motivation as the pursuit and satisfaction of subjective feelings (interest and enjoyment) as intrinsic rewards. |
Keywords | intrinsic motivation; anterior insular cortex (AIC); striatum; functional connectivity; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) |
Year | 2017 |
Journal | Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience |
Journal citation | 17 (5), pp. 939 - 953 |
Publisher | Psychonomic Society Inc. |
ISSN | 1530-7026 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-017-0524-x |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85021070544 |
Page range | 939 - 953 |
Research Group | Institute for Positive Psychology and Education |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United States of America |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/85569/identifying-the-neural-substrates-of-intrinsic-motivation-during-task-performance
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